Discover the testimony of 19-year-old Ustaša, Joso Orešković, detailing his participation in the events at the Slana camp on Pag Island, #Croatia during World War II.
Do you love books and history? If so, you'll love this week's Grammar Girl podcast because Peter Sokolowski tells us stories about the special Armed Services Editions of books that were created especially for the troops in WWII.
Listen while you get ready for gatherings this weekend, and you'll have great bits of trivia to share!
Russia is celebrating Victory Day and President Vladimir Putin is using the occasion to justify his actions in Ukraine.
Meanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said: "Today we celebrate Victory Day over Nazism. We are proud of our ancestors who together with other nations in the anti-Hitler coalition defeated Nazism. And we will not allow anyone to annex this victory. We will not allow it to be appropriated."
During Operation Barbarossa, German invasion of the Soviet Union, Nazi forces occupied much of Soviet Ukraine, executing civilians, destroying cultural heritage & infrastructure
The same Ukrainian regions that were once invaded by Nazis are now suffering from Russian attacks, killings
This visual piece, we are looking at similarities between WWII & the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
'Today, Ancestry announced the free availability of the first comprehensive list of over 125,000 persons of Japanese descent who were unjustly imprisoned between December 1942 and January 1948.'
Arabs have said they will recognize Israel as long as there is a path to an independent #Palestine, where the two exist side-by-side.
For #Bibi to harbor ambitions to get #Palestinians to flee so that Israel can move in permanently would not only be illegitimate, it would be a grievous folly
They have been the biggest losers since #WWII, are the biggest losers now, and will be in worse shape than they were in on #Oct7 if they don't disavow and distance themselves from #Hamas.
See hashtag #inTheirName for why they are in such a sorry situation.